In response to student requests for the Tridentine Mass, a traditional Catholic Mass said in Latin, the Office of Campus Ministry has agreed to regularize its twice-weekly observance in Copley Crypt.

The Latin Mass may be coming back to Georgetown, if one group of students has its way. Two students submitted last month a formal request to the Office of Campus Ministry for the addition of a ...

ROCK ISLAND -- Tridentine Masses will keep smiles on the faces of some Catholic traditionalists in the Quad-Cities. The Tridentine Mass is said in Latin, but it's becoming an endangered species in the ...

VATICAN CITY -- It was one of the most radical reforms to emerge from the Second Vatican Council. The Mass, root of Roman Catholic worship, would be celebrated in the local language and not in Latin.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., explained his reasoning for limiting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in his archdiocese, saying that allowing the old form of ...

Although Pope Benedict XVI plans to allow more Catholic churches to use the Latin Mass, local Catholic priests don't believe it will have much effect here. Monsignor Thomas Smith of St. Joseph ...

No matter how you look at it, the story about a Tridentine Catholic Mass being held in a conference room in the U.S. Capitol is more than a little bizarre. Even assuming the best of intentions, the ...

On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and chanted the Marian prayer "Regina Caeli" in Latin. While many consider Latin chant controversial ...

Despite the 2007 publication of Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI, clarifying the use of the Tridentine Latin Mass, confusion abounds. Few priests, it seems, understand the document, perhaps ...

(Soundbite of Mass) MARTIN: This is the Tridentine Mass and it was practiced by Catholics for close to 1500 years before the Second Vatican Council decreed that services should be in the vernacular of ...

After months of intense speculation, Pope Benedict XVI has eased restrictions on the Catholic Church’s traditional Latin Mass — a move that could raise controversy both within the Church, and in its ...

Only months after a document issued by Pope Benedict XVI provided universal permission to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, An Italian diocese has forbidden its priests to celebrate any Latin Masses in ...